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    parent, the character from the book The Chosen, Reb Isaac Saunders would compare to a prison warden. Principles of Hasidism (An Ultra-Orthodox sub-group of Judaism) governing his every waking moment, Reb Saunders serves as a man of devout following. Not only a follower but, a leader, referred to as a Tsaddik or “Righteous One” by the Hasidic Community. Throughout the book, Reb Saunders passes along his strict beliefs onto his family, enforcing strict study regimens upon his children, to the…

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    boys grow up together and experience friendship first hand. This book tells a story about a boy, Reuven, who meets another boy called Danny. Despite their different religions, Reuven lives as an Orthodox Jew and Danny and his father follow Hasidic Judaism, both Reuven and Danny defy the odds, and become best friends. According to Merriam Webster, a person portrays friendly qualities when they help or support someone. Throughout the story, friendship exists between Reuven and Danny when they…

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    and not a jailer.” (W. Somerset Maugham) This quote demonstrates that tradition can be changed, similar to the way Hasidism changed traditional Judaism. Hasidism began in Southeast Poland-Lithuania and sparked a revolution in Judaism. The breakup of Judaism paired with the lack of trust in Jewish leaders, lead Hasidism to form and pave a new way for Judaism. Kabbalah, Mass enthusiasm and ecstasy acted as the foundation for the movement and fear of separatism lead many people to oppose Hasidism.…

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    At the pinnacle of the holocaust, in 1944, thousands of Jewish people were deported from their homes and countries and separated from their families. One of the thousands of Jews was a boy named Elie Weisel. Elie and his father were put into a concentration camp after they were split up from his mother and sister who they never saw again. Little did Elie know he was about to go through so much pain and suffering that he would eventually lose his faith that was once so strong. Because of the…

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    “God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.” quoted Simon Wiesenthal. Simon Wiesenthal was a survivor of the Holocaust, which gives him a great amount of ethos in his quote. Another survivor of the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel, had the same thoughts. Eliezer, Elie as he is referred to, published a novel titled Night, which showed his struggles throughout the Holocaust. Elie was a Jewish boy who had wished to study Kabbalah prior to the Holocaust. According to Oxford Dictionaries, Kabbalah is…

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    rabbi brings politics and religion together to authorize the people. Hasidics strive to follow all the commandments in the Torah which, like the bible, is the word of God. They also strongly believed that any physical object has a spiritual significant meaning and true motive for existence. The Hasidics tried to maintain a joyful attitude because this was a duty to God who created everything. The founder of Hasidic Judaism believed that all Jews should worry less about the academic side of…

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    Hasidism Summary

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    that Hasidism was a conservative movement with entrenched dynastic leadership and a clear agenda of opposition to any deviation from religious law. In the face of growing challenges to tradition, Hasidism joined with the emerging Orthodox Judaism which had turned against various modernist…

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    The Holocaust inspired many works of art such as the memoir Night and the poem “Mercy and Grace,” which both show how faith and religion declined with the Jewish people, with the more suffering, and torture they endured. For example, in the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a Jewish citizen of Sighet, and a Holocaust survivor, is watching the world slowly drip into chaos. Often times in his society, people are being dragged to concentration camps, and their families are separated. Then, as Wiesel…

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    Tov said: "The ability to be joyous, by discerning the good and joyous within every experience, is considered by Chassidim as a biblical command.” (Davidson and Silberberg, , n.d.) These changes were considered fundamentally opposed to traditional Judaism and were feared to be indicative of a movement which tried to reform our age-old tradition, G-d…

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    Furthermore, African Americans and Hasidic Jews are linked with Crown Heights. The majority of the Jews live on the south side of Crown Heights, which actually differs from its surrounding areas in regard to race, religion, and social living conditions. Most of the Jews live on Kingston Avenue, between Troy Avenue and New York Avenue. The six blocks of Kingston between Eastern Parkway and Empire Boulevard are home to many Jewish community-related places, and Hasidic owned stores, some of them…

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